Exploring history, food, and culture between the Belbo river and the vineyard hills of Monferrato

Category Archives: Bookshelf

Here is just a quick heads-up for the opportunity to both bring home a lot of great books, and to help the National Parks Service on its 100th Anniversary. The fine folks of Humble Bundle have teamed up with Lonely … Continue reading →

One of the things we hear more often, hereabouts, is there’s nothing here! especially applied to the countryside and nature thereof. People go for a walk in the hills, and yes, ok, there’s the fields, and the woods, and the … Continue reading →

The blog is live, and I feel I should do an inauguration post. In the early ’90 I read abook by American author William Least Heat Moon, whose Blue Highways, a Journey into America I had loved as a first-year … Continue reading →